Hollywood star Kate Beckinsale believes social media subjects all its users to the type of public scrutiny focused on celebrities.

The Face Of An Angel star has a teenage daughter Lily from her relationship with Welsh actor Michael Sheen, and admitted in an interview on ITV show Lorraine that she worries about the influence of social media.

Kate, 41, said: “I think it’s tough. I have to say I think being a teenager in this sort of era, with social media, is about the closest thing to being a celebrity as is possible to so she sort of gets a double whammy.

Kate Beckinsale with daughter Lily Sheen (Jordan Strauss/Invision)
Kate Beckinsale with daughter Lily Sheen (Jordan Strauss/Invision)

“I think being commented on and sort of deconstructed and you know objectified is a horrible experience and that’s why all actors and actresses are insane because it shouldn’t happen to people, but it does happen to teenagers like mad, so we have that point of contact and luckily we are all fairly normal, we don’t have gold bathtubs or anything.”

The Underworld star, who is married to director Len Wiseman, also revealed she avoids Googling herself – as the process is only going to prove a negative experience.

Kate said: “I think if you Google yourself you’re basically asking for someone to say something nasty about you or to find something. And I think it’s human nature if you read 12 nice things and then one person says something horrible that you actually secretly agree with, you might as well just not ask or just ask people who you like, who like you.”

Kate with director husband Len Wiseman (Matt Sayles/Invision)
Kate with director husband Len Wiseman (Matt Sayles/Invision)

The British actress stars with Cara Delevingne and Daniel Bruhl in Michael Winterbottom’s film The Face Of An Angel, inspired by the Amanda Knox trial.

Kate revealed working with Michael had been very different to some of the Hollywood blockbusters she is used to.

She said: “He works quite short days which is quite nice but there’s no breaks, there’s no lunch break, there’s no sitting down, nobody’s got a chair, nobody’s got a trailer, nobody’s got anything like that.

“And you turn up and you put a microphone on the minute you get there and that’s on all day and it’s turned on all day. It’s not so much that there’s a ton of hijinks because you are sort of encouraged to be in character as much as you possibly can.”